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LPWS Convention

Convention Update

• Saturday, June 21, 8AM to 6PM
• University of Puget Sound, Tacoma
• $15 Registration and packets at the door.
• Come to 1500 North Warner. Look for MacIntyre Hall, then room MAC103.

As reported earlier, this year's convention will have no outside speakers. It's purely a business meeting. Only a handful of actual Resolutions have been submitted so far, but they will likely generate lengthy discussion.

We Libertarians do love our platform debates. Tom Stahl, platform chair, is working to shorten and simplify our state platform. One submission seeks to fit the entire platform on a single panel of a candidate's trifold brochure.

Another Resolution would authorize a year-long Task Force on bylaws. The purpose here is larger than a traditional bylaws committee. What type of party organization will best get us to 2500 members or so? The intention is to apply a ''clean-sheet'' perspective, possibly proposing an entirely new document for the 1998 convention. For a project of this magnitude, the Task Force would comprise a mix of state and regional officers, plus rank-and-file members.

The outgoing Executive Committee has taken the initial steps toward formal strategic and financial planning. Results from the Member Survey will have been tabulated and available. The next step will begin at the convention, as we start moving closer to setting specific goals.

Setting goals can be dull. But achieving goals is fun. This may give you a taste of the process. It's an actual recent discussion by current party leaders. As a political party, our primary goals are in two separate areas: memberships and candidates.

What should be our membership goal? Doubling our size in a year sounds nice. Can we do it? Probably not. The national party did it, but they had Harry Browne. Do we have a Harry Browne? Or do we need to create one of our own?

We now have roughly 800 members. At 1100 members, we would be ''Number One'---the largest state membership in the country, adjusted for population, in published LPHQ data. (New Hampshire is first.)

Would you like to be Numero Uno? Would it help our party PR, and our candidates, to claim we are Numero Uno? How much are you willing to help?

As a candidate goal, having ''major party'' status would help. That requires 5% of the vote in a statewide race. For 1998, that means the U.S. Senate seat. Should we set 1998 or 2000, as the year we commit our entire organization to achieving ''major party'' status? We have limited resources. How do we best apply them?

Sure, goals and planning aren't as much fun as getting together and discussing libertarian theory. But we can do both. We need to do both.

--MJH

Official ''Compassion'' Is No Such Thing

Recently a reader wrote to us asking that we cancel his subscription because it displays, in his words, ''lack of compassion and responsibility for helping one's neighbor.'' It is a charge frequently leveled against libertarians, and demands a response.

Calls for ''compassion'' admittedly make many libertarians uneasy nowadays, but not because they lack compassion, or are averse to helping their neighbors. They cringe because the call is usually sounded by some strident advocacy group as a fanfare to some new campaign to induce the gummint to extort money from citizens for transfer to the advocates' favorite cause. Hence, libertarians-and many ordinary citizens-have come to interpret exhortations for compassion as the warning rattle of a viper about to strike.

The dire associations that have poisoned the term ''compassion'' are symptomatic of the broader damage being done to human relationships by the increasing politicization of social life. Just as we have largely abandoned responsibility for our own well being-for providing for our own retirement years, our own health care, and educating (and even caring for) our own children-so have many of us abandoned personal responsibility for the less fortunate members of our communities, preferring to surrender such chores to gummint bureaucrats. The latter, having no personal relationships with or interest in the individuals for whose care they have been charged, predictably contrive programs designed, not to help their nominal beneficiaries, but to maintain their dependency and expand caseloads, thus assuring the bureaucrats' own job security and promotional opportunities.

The results of this official ''compassion'' are well known: although poverty rates in America had fallen steadily throughout the first half of this century (indeed, from the nation's founding), in the mid-60's we decided to declare ''war'' on poverty. Yet, despite spending over $2 trillion forcibly extracted from taxpayers (or forcibly borrowed from their children) to wage this war, poverty rates increased, especially among younger population groups.

''Compassion'' for criminals-who we were told were hapless victims of disadvantaged social circumstances-gave us the ''rehabilitation model'' of criminal corrections, and the crime rate exploded. Our ''compassion'' for ethnic minorities led us to impart to them an ideology of victimization, helplessness, and reliance on political ''empowerment'' and gummint programs to improve their status. As a result, black families and communities disintegrated. ''Compassion'' for the ''exploited masses'' of the Third World induced us to endow their tyrannical, mostly leftist gummints with the means to further terrorize them and destroy their economies, thus transforming mere privation into outright starvation.

Given these obvious consequences of what Canadian author William D. Gairdner calls ''coercive humanitarianism,'' the increasing public contempt for new declarations of official compassion should not be surprising.

Unfortunately, as the moral obligations of individuals are gradually usurped by the State, the moral consciousness atrophies. As the ranks of dubious claimants upon the public's generosity swells, productive citizens become resentful and callous, suspicious that every appeal for aid is merely the oink of another hog jockeying for position at the trough. The hesitant pleas of deserving individuals suffering genuine misfortunes or handicaps are drowned in the cacophony of political factions demanding their due quota of official ''compassion.'' Of course, the latter do not consider any assistance they may extort from their fellow citizens (with housing, food, medical care, etc.) to be charitable contributions, but regard it as their ''right.'' Hence, they have no sense of gratitude and do not acknowledge any obligation to reciprocate. After all, one does not owe any special debt to persons who have merely respected one's rights (you may recall the incident a few years ago when a welfare mother attending a community meeting in Washington, DC, chastised the Mayor because the city's housing authority had not provided a unit large enough for her and her 14 children. The Mayor asked the woman, ''Ma'am, why do you keep having so many babies?'' To which she replied, ''It's not up to you to ask me that. It's up to you to find me a place to live!'')

No wonder compassion is getting a bad name.

Real compassion springs from the recognition of one's own humanity in others. But that common humanity consists, not merely in our mutual susceptibility to pain, but in our mutual aspirations to the virtues and ideals that define the high moral status we confer upon ourselves. Compassion arises within us only when we see, not merely another's pain, but pain despite the other's evident decency, honesty, humility, and dignity. The pain of a rapist thrashed by an enraged member of the victim's family does not elicit our compassion.

Genuine compassion depends critically upon a moral judgment: we must be assured that the person asking for our help deserves it. In order to make those judgments we must either be personally acquainted with the suffering person, or rely on the judgment of others we trust who are.

Government, needless to say, has shown itself manifestly untrustworthy in this regard. It has exploited our noblest sentiments to con us of funds which it has bestowed upon foreign despots, domestic reprobates, common thugs, and especially on its own legions of apparatchiks.

Libertarians are neither devoid of compassion nor reluctant to help others. A society in which most people were unwilling to help deserving others would hardly be a society at all. What libertarians deny is not the necessity nor the nobility of charity, but the morality of forced charity. Contributions to others' welfare made at the point of a gun are not charity at all, but robbery. Instead of inspiring pride in the donor and a sense of acceptance and gratitude in the recipient, as an act of genuine charity does, forced charity induces resentment in the donor and guilt and arrogance in the recipient. And gummint charity, of course, is forced charity.

Genuine compassion is a natural response of individuals to the suffering of others in whom they recognize virtues to which they themselves aspire. It arises naturally in families, neighborhoods, and communities, and will flourish there if left alone. Official compassion is merely a pretext for another gummint foraging expedition into the privacy and purses of its citizens. Understanding the distinction can help us decide, when called upon to exercise compassion, whether to open the door or bar the gate.

What It Means To Be A Libertarian (Shorter Version) In light of Charles Murray's new book, What It Means To Be A Libertarian, which was recently published, I thought I would offer my own view of what it means to be a libertarian.

Being a libertarian means:

Your mother and father are your parents--not the government;

You are an adult capable of making your own decisions;

You are the parents of your children, responsible for their safety, well-being and education;

You accept responsibility for your own safety and well-being;

You have the freedom to believe (or not) whatever you want with regard to religion, politics, and anything else;

You oppose government discrimination in all its forms, including ''affirmative action;''

You oppose government forcing people into the military, AmeriCorps, or any other government organization;

You think the best tax reform would be to eliminate taxes;

You believe you can best decide how to spend the money you earn;

You believe you can best decide what to do with your own property;

You value nature and animal life, which is why you don't want government to own or manage them;

You oppose not only welfare for individuals, but welfare for corporations, farms, and foreign countries;

You think adults should be able to decide for themselves whether to wear a seat belt or a helmet, have air bags in their cars, smoke, drink, or use drugs;

You value life, which is why you don't want government regulating people's lives;

You pay for what you get and don't expect your neighbor to buy it for you;

You believe that the only volunteerism of value is truly voluntary;

You think criminals should pay for their crimes, and victims should be compensated;

You believe crimes occur only when there are victims of force or fraud;

You believe individuals have the right to keep and bear arms;

You believe all individuals should receive due process of the law;

You believe juries can judge the law as well as the facts of a case;

You believe that if your actions are not causing harm to another that the government should leave you alone;

You believe government should not interefere in your choices of friends and associates;

You believe that businesses should be able hire or fire whoever they choose;

You believe businesses can run their business better than government;

You don't believe corporations ''owe'' anything to anyone, other than to their owners or stockholders;

You believe that your money is your money to spend, save, invest, or give away as you see fit;

You can choose where to live based on your financial means and desires;

You don't believe government can make us all equal or make life fair;

You don't believe government should subsidize anyone or anything;

You don't believe government should impose rent or price controls, nor ration goods or services;

You believe the free market can better fulfill people's needs and desires;

You believe private individuals and organizations are more accountable and responsible than government;

You think private charity works better than government give-aways;

You believe the military should defend only our country;

You believe in freedom of speech;

You believe we wouldn't need campaign finance reform if the government wasn't giving so much away;

You believe we should have free markets in education;

You think there is nothing secure about ''Social Security;''

You think we'd all be healthier if government wasn't in the health care business;

You think we have too many federal laws and too much government;

You don't believe the government ''gives'' anything without taking something away;

You seek freedom.

Moerschel chairs the Spokane County LP

SEC Report

LPWS Endorses Measures

by Mike Hihn

The LPWS Executive Committee met on May 17. The Committee approved a convention resolution to abolish the office of Secretary. Most of those duties will shift to a staff function.

The LPWS has joined a coalition of civic groups opposing the statewide stadium initiative, ''Stop Stadium Madness.'' State Chair Jim Campton committed the LPWS two days before the campaign was launched, an action ratified by the board. Public Relations Chair Mike Hihn provided a press release for the joint effort, and will try to place an op-ed in newspapers around the state.

Also, the Committee endorsed Initiative 678, permitting dental hygienists to practice independently of dentists. Petitioners are paid 45-50 cents per name. If you are interested in helping gather signatures, phone SHOUT at (206) 344-4130.

The Committee also endorsed Initiative 200, a measure to repeal government racial, gender and ethnic preferences. The sponsors of this measure also use paid petitioners, but are seeking to work through organizations. Call(206) 526-8560 for more information.

The Committee heard a presentation on two drug-related initiatives. The presenter, a legalization activist, explicitly deferred on formal endorsement. I-197 is a hemp legalization measure (phone 206-548-8043 for info). I-685 is a medical marijuana measure (206-781-6795). Both need petitioners.

In other business, the Committee authorized Chairman Campton to negotiate and sign a management services contract with Hihn Management Consulting, based on a four-page detailed proposal. The vote was unanimous, with Hihn abstaining. The action will create a paid part-time State Director to evolve over two years on a ''bootstrap'' basis, and will create a formal board and staff management structure. The proposal sets forth specific goals. The contract will be completed within two weeks, to allow a formal presentation at the convention. A shorter description will appear in next month's WL.

If the proposal is approved, additional convention resolutions may be required. For example, if bookkeeping becomes a staff function, the Treasurer would be reduced to an audit function.

One goal of ''Project Bootstrap'' is to reduce the onerous demands on party officers, thus allowing more candidates to consider running. Most of the current Executive Committee announced they will not stand for re-election. Two will instead run serious campaigns for public office, but have not formally announced. Hihn will not run for Party office, to avoid conflict of interest. By approving the Managing Consultant contract the Committee in effect voted to reduce the demands of party office, in the same year the LPWS must fill a record number of those offices.

This will indeed be an important convention. Don't just attend. Consider running for party office. Contact Mike Hihn for the current job descriptions, (206) 241-6058, or mikehihn@libertyissues.com.

Boors Now ''Protected Class''

New Federal Rules Protect Rude,
Late, Or Hostile Employees

WASHINGTON, DC - Great news: If you're rude to your co-workers, chronically late, or hostile to your boss, you may have a guaranteed job for life--thanks to the Americans with Disabilities Act.

And if you get fired for any of those reasons, you may be able to sue for millions of dollars, says a new ruling from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

''Politicians have passed a lot of crazy laws--but this is the lunatic fringe,'' said Steve Dasbach, chairman of the Libertarian Party. ''These regulations are proof that in Washington DC, the inmates are running the asylum.''

New regulations issued by the EEOC instruct employers to make ''reasonable accommodations'' for mentally ill or emotionally unstable employees. Sounds reasonable until you ask: What constitutes a mental illness?

According to the EEOC, you may be crazy--and thus protected--if you display ''consistently high levels of hostility, social withdrawal, or failure to communicate.''

Also, character traits such as rude behavior, chronic tardiness, and bad judgment are no longer symptoms of a bad employee--but might be evidence of a federally protected crazy person, says the EEOC.

''You might call this the Jerk Protection Act of 1997,'' said Dasbach. ''Thanks to the EEOC, the kind of offensive behavior that we frequently see on the floor of Congress is now federally protected at every American business.''

But the new ''crazy people'' regulations are just the latest chapter in the EEOC's ongoing campaign to force companies to hire questionable employees.

According to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), former drug users and current alcoholics get special ''disability'' protection--even though drug and alcohol problems cost American businesses more than $100 billion a year, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Also: Criminal convictions can't be considered when making hiring decisions, says the EEOC.

''According to federal law, you now get maximum job protection if you're a crazy, drunk, criminal,'' noted Dasbach.

Thanks to such liberal interpretations of ''disabilities,'' the ADA has become a multi-million dollar bonanza for lawyers. The ADA has been cited in lawsuits...

* Against a company that fired a dentist for fondling his patients. (Excuse: Sexual addiction.)

* Against a company for firing an employee caught falsifying records (an ''impulse to wrongdoing'').

* Against an employer for not banning perfume (sensitivity to fragrances).

* Against the New York City Transit Authority because a subway conductor couldn't fit into the driver's seat (too fat).

''Sure, these examples are funny, but the worst part of the ADA isn't that it's been expanded to lunatic extremes,'' said Dasbach. ''The problem is the ADA - period.

''Frankly, the government has no right to second-guess 100 million hiring and firing decisions made by American employees and businesses. It has no right to turn every job decision into a potential lawsuit. It has no right to impose billions of dollars of unfunded mandates on businesses. And it has no right to demand special treatment for particular groups of individuals--no matter how popular the cause.

''The ADA has become just another opportunity for Americans to claim victim status and clamor for government protection, and another opportunity for government bureaucrats to enhance their power by expanding the size and scope of the law.

''And these latest EEOC regulations about crazy people are further evidence that it's a mad, mad, mad world--at least in Washington, DC,'' he said.

--LPHQ

Budget Agreement Graphic Evidence
Of Republican Sellout

WASHINGTON, DC - The so-called balanced budget agreement--currently sailing through Capitol Hill on a cloud of bipartisan harmony--is the final ''nail in the coffin'' of Republican claims that they support smaller government, the Libertarian Party charged last week.

''With this budget, Republicans have embraced new federal spending, higher taxes, and a larger national debt--while pretending it's a victory for smaller government,'' said Steve Dasbach, Libertarian Party chairman.

''In fact, this budget marks a full-fledged retreat by Republicans. They've shown their true colors: Like Democrats, Republicans not only support big government--they support bigger government.''

The budget agreement, already passed by both the Senate and House, would allegedly balance the budget by 2002, cut taxes by $85 billion, and cut federal spending by $1 trillion.

''That's what politicians claim--but this budget actually increases spending, increases tax revenue, and increases the national debt,'' said Dasbach.

Specifically, the proposed budget:

Increases federal spending by $70 billion next year--the biggest one-year spending jump of the Clinton presidency. ''It's even larger than Clinton's budget increases when the Democrats controlled Congress!'' said Dasbach.

Boosts federal spending by a total of $270 billion over five years.

Includes billions in new and expanded government programs--$22 billion for health insurance for children; $37 billion for low-income housing; $800 million in increased foreign aid; and billions more for welfare, Head Start, and child literacy programs.

Also, the budget agreement doesn't accomplish its one major objective--eliminating the budget deficit. In fact, the proposed budget:

Actually increases the deficit for the next two years--from about $67 billion this year to $90 billion in 1998 and 1999.

Adds an additional $300 billion to the national debt over five years.

Uses accounting tricks to hide the deficit. By 2002, the deficit will still be $80 to $100 billion--but will be masked by surpluses generated by the Social Security Trust Fund. But those ''surpluses'' are immediately spent on day-to-day government operations, and replaced with government IOUs.

Does nothing to pay off the current $5.5 trillion national debt.

Finally, even the savings and tax cuts in the budget are fake, Dasbach charged.

Republicans point to $85 billion in tax cuts--but those ''cuts'' come not from Americans paying substantially less taxes, but from plans to reduce future tax collections by about one percent.

Republicans point to $950 billion in savings--but those ''savings'' come not from cutting programs, but from increasing spending less than previously anticipated.

Even worse: The so-called savings don't kick in until 2000 or later.

''This budget agreement proves that there's nothing more dangerous than Republicans and Democrats working together in harmonious bipartisanship,'' said Dasbach. ''When you hear the word bipartisan, grab your wallet and hold on tight.''

--LPHQ

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Worth Mentioning . . . .

compiled by Janice Moerschel

Thomas Jefferson, terrorist? A recent release from the national LP reported that Oklahoma City bombing prosecutor Joseph Hartzler said Timothy McVeigh's tee-shirt (which proclaimed ''The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants'') ''broadcast [McVeigh's] intentions to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

Refreshing campaign finance reform proposal. Representative John Doolittle (R, CA) has introduced the ''Citizen Legislature and Political Freedom Act'' (H.R. 965) designed ''to encourage political speech rather than limit it; to promote competition, freedom, and a more informed electorate; to enable any American citizen to run for office; to increase the amount of time candidates spend with constituents and debating issues rather than raising money; and to make candidates accountable to their constituents for the money they accept.'' Briefly, the legislation would repeal existing restrictions on campaign contributions, make contributions public (via the Internet, newspapers, and the like), and end taxpayer funding of presidential elections.

The China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) has received: a 20 year lease of the Long Beach Naval Station, a $138 million taxpayer-subsidized loan guarantee to build ships in Alabama, and an agreement to lease the ''anchor ports'' to the Panama Canal. COSCO is supervised by the People's Liberation Army and employs notorious arms dealer and White House coffee guest Wang Jun. The Long Beach facility was closed as part of defense cutbacks. Wang Jun's business associates smuggled illegal assault weapons into the U.S. which wound up in the hands of street gangs. What a deal!

Fed hoax--or good news is bad news. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is, arguably, the most powerful man in the United States and, thus, the world. Wall Street hangs on his every word. His remarks cause mayhem in the financial markets. He mission is, ostensibly, to control inflation. To Greenspan, inflationary signs are: a ''strong economy,'' too many people working, people earning more money, or people spending more money. Based on such ''bad'' news, he may raise interest rates. But it is a cruel hoax. Greenspan must know that inflation is caused by increases in the money supply and, based on M3 statistics (the broadest measure of the money supply), inflation has risen 20% during the past six years. This is not the fault of producers or consumers.

Oregon lawmakers want out of Social Security. A measure which calls upon the U.S. Congress to amend the Social Security Act ''to allow the issuance of waivers to the states that will permit the design and implementation of alternatives to Social Security'' passed the Oregon Senate in March and the Oregon House on May 5. It seems they heard from Chile's former minister of labor, Jose Pinera, about his country's successful transition to a private retirement system. The Cato Institute and Cascade Policy Institute were influential as well.

Food For Thought . . .

Gleanings from the
Current Libertarian Press

In REASON for June, Nick Gillespie reports on the current flurry of hand-wringing over the well-being of America's children--despite the ample evidence that kids, by almost any measure, are better off than ever. The reason: kids provide an appealing rationale for growing the State. In other articles, John Hood predicts that the Clintonistas will soon launch a new pitch for statist health care, this time focusing the rhetoric on sick kids; Michael W. Lynch interviews California Welfare Director Eloise Anderson--a black former welfare recipient who thinks welfare should be abolished; and numerous readers debate the accuracy of Michael Fumento's March article on Gulf War Syndrome. (Reason, 3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd. Ste #400, LA, CA, 90034-6064.. Subscriptions $25/ 11 issues).

New from the Institute: Social Security Policy Paper #8, A Plan For Privatizing Social Security, by Peter Ferrara. (Cato Institute, 1000 Massachussetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001. Policy Analyses $6 each).

New from . . .
Centuries of Economic Endeavor--Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and their Contrast with the Third World, by John P. Powelson ($24.95);
Reputation: Studies in the Voluntary Elicitation of Good Conduct, edited by Daniel B. Klein ($29.50);
No Law Against Mercy: Jailed for Sheltering a Child from the State, by Barbara Lyn Lapp and Rachel B. Lapp ($19.95);
The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity, by Michael Martin ($24.95);
Bagatorials (essays lifted from the grocery bags distributed at the 500-plus Cheaper! grocery store chain in California), by chain owners John and Ned Roscoe ($10.95);
The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life, by Nathaniel Branden ($22.95).
(Laissez Faire Books, 938 Howard St., #202, SF, CA, 94103, 800-326-0996).

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Florida LP Member Hal Noyes has won a $25,000 settlement against the city of Orlando for violating his First Amendment rights.

Noyes accepted the settlement on May 1st-- two months after filing a lawsuit against the city, in which he charged that his arrest for distributing Libertarian leaflets in a public park was unconstitutional (WL, May).

Noyes' ordeal began in September 1995 when he was peacefully handing out LP literature in Orlando's Lake Eola Park. A police officer told Noyes that he was a ''threat to public order,'' and commanded him to leave. When Noyes asked the officers under what authority they were telling him to stop distributing literature, the policeman responded that the public park was ''private property owned by the city of Orlando.''

Noyes responded that his actions were protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The police didn't agree. Noyes was charged with trespassing, handcuffed, and taken to the Orange County Jail. He spent seven hours behind bars. A month later, the charges were dropped.

The Orlando Sentinel applauded the lawsuit in an editorial, writing: ''[Noyes] wants to send the city a clear message. The message should be this: Read the U.S. Constitution.''

The number of Libertarians serving in public office has jumped to another new record--192--thanks to a flurry of election wins and appointments over the past several months.

''This is an increase of more than a dozen Libertarian office- holders since the beginning of the year,'' said the party's political director, Ron Crickenberger. ''Our goal is to increase the number of LP office-holders to 200 by the end of 1998, and it looks like we're running ahead of schedule.''

LPWS Calendar

June 9: Spokane County LP, Lindaman Nonprofit Center, W. 315 Mission, 7:00 p.m.

June 19: Vancouver Libertarians, 7:00 pm, Smokey's Pizza in Orchards, Washington, 10411 NE Fourth Plain.

June 21: LPWS State Convention, University of Puget Sound, 8:00 a.m.

June 26: West King County LP, Ocean City Restaurant, 6th & Weller, International District, dinner 6:30, meeting 7:30 p.m.

LPWS Executive Committee

State Officers

Jim Campton, Chair (206) 941-4547 jlcampton@aol.com

Matt McCally, Finance (206) 439-1862

Art Rathjen, Membership (206) 527-6149 rathjena@wolfenet.com

Steve Cornell, Treasurer (206) 365-6610

Mike Hihn, Campaigns, Public Relations (206) 241-6058 MikeHihn@libertyissues.com

Regional Representatives

Central Washington, Tom Stahl, (509) 745-8801 lpcw@LPWS.org

Island County, Dave Maas, (360) 678-0277 lpic@LPWS.org

W. King County, Eric Morrisson , (206) 547-5686 lpwkc@LPWS.org

East King County, Mike Hoffgaard, (206) 939-2234 lpekc@LPWS.org

Spokane County, Gary Morton, (509) 624-9075 lpspokane@LPWS.org

WL Info

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